This week I want to talk about book review. I read The Fault in Our Stars recently. TFIOS is a love story between the girl Hazel who have lungs cancer and a guy named Augustus who have cancer before, but now Augustus has lose one leg and recover from cancer. The story also talk about family, friendship and death. As I was reading book about death and I really have dilemma to finish the book, because I think at the end the book character will die and I don't wanna see them die.
TFIOS is a very emotional book, you can see Hazel is suffer from breathing but she still trying to live hard, she like a book from writer Peter Ven Houten very much. And one day, she got a chance to visit this writer with her lover August in other country, but things doesnt go smoothly. As Hazel situation become worse. In the journey, they all learn a lot. After they return to home country, Augustus cancer is back, and then two of them have to support each other without knowing when the date will be end. This is not a cliche love story, in fact, the character know they are dying and they always talk about death, life, galaxy, family, society, even though they are just 16, but they always inspired me.
One thing that I have got inspired in this book is,
"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you."(quote from my favorite line)
You have the choice to allow who could hurt you. And most of the time, people are hurting themselves with self-pity and insecureness.
I think this is because the society have lack of Love (my last post is about the caring of society). You know, without love, we are all birds with broken wings.
One of the book character once said,
"there's only two feeling in this world, love and fear."
Is that true? I can't say.
Augustus fear of oblivion.He is afraid if he is dying with his cancer return, days after day, people will forget him, then he tried to do extreme thing and pretend to live a normal life.
Human fear of oblivion, as though the universe want to be noticed.
But we all will not be remember by all the human.
Eventually, we will forget by the people
so why do we fear of the thing that we can't change. We cant be remember to the people forever, but we do live in our friends and family heart although we have gone. Because this is love and this is more than enough to remember.
Hazel fear of being a "grenade".
She always avoid interact with people especially her parents, because she is afraid if one day she died, the "grenade" explode, her parents cant live/move on without her. She love her family and doesnt want her family to be sad in the future, she always tried to avoid love. But I admire her for her strength towards her cancer. She understand the meaning of life, Without pain, how could we know joy.
At the end, Hazel and her parents solve the problem, and they cherish every moment that they had. I know, her parents'll always be grateful of had-having the moment with Hazel.
She always avoid interact with people especially her parents, because she is afraid if one day she died, the "grenade" explode, her parents cant live/move on without her. She love her family and doesnt want her family to be sad in the future, she always tried to avoid love. But I admire her for her strength towards her cancer. She understand the meaning of life, Without pain, how could we know joy.
At the end, Hazel and her parents solve the problem, and they cherish every moment that they had. I know, her parents'll always be grateful of had-having the moment with Hazel.
Some time people think, love is gone since the person is gone? No. the thing I learn from Hazel and her mom is,
we don't stop loving the person although he/she is not with us anymore.
Love could beat oblivion, distances, times and all.
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